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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
Volume 839, Page 32b   View pdf image
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    Aprill Court            1723                     32
Whereupon the Court adjourns untill the last tuesday of Aprill next Being the thirtieth day of the same
month Ann Dom one thousand seven hundred and twenty three on which day the Court being sett Comes
againe the said Charles Ratcliffe Executor as afd by his attorney afd and Prays that for as much as he has
Complyed with the Law in Order to an attachm.t he may have Judgm.t against the said William Martindale
for his damages afd by way of attachm.t according to act of assembly &.c  whereupon for that it seems to the
Court here that ye  said Charles ratcliff Executor as afd has Complyed with the laws as alledged
                                                          Therefore it is Considered by the Justices here the thirtieth day of
Aprill Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty three that the said Charles Ratcliff Executor
as afd Recover against the said William Martindale as well the sum of twenty two pounds three shill
and four Pence his damages by Occasion of the Premisses afd as al Costs ^and Charges^ by the plft Laid Out and
Expended about his suite by way of attachm.t against ye goods Chattles rights or Creditts of the said William
Martindale according to act of assembly in such Case made and Provided &c


F: A: Westcoat Gray
                       ag.t
L: G: Isaac Atkinson
 Command was given to the sherr of Sommersett County that he should take Isaac Atkinson
of Coventry Parish in the County of Sommersett Cooper if he should be found in
his Baliwick and him should Safe Keep so that he might have his Body Before the
                Justices of his Lordships County Court of Sommersett to be held at Dividing Creek the third tuesday
       of march then next to answer unto Wescot Gray of a plea of trespass the Case &.c and that thereof he
       should not fail &c                        And the said Wescot Gray by Francis Allen his attorney Proceeded
       against the said Isaac Atkinson in the Plea afd as follows vizt
Sommrsett County ss:  Isaac Atkinson of Coventry Parish in the County of Somrsett Cooper was attached to
              Answer unto Wescott Gray of a plea of trespass upon the Case &c
       And whereupon the said Wescott by Francis Allen his attorney Complains that whereas the said Wescott the
       tenth day of July Ann Dom One thousand seven hundred and twenty two at the Parish and County afd
       within the Jurisdiction of this Court was Possessed of One Large Bay Stone horse with a few white hairs in his
       forehead and a black List from his main to his taile aged from years some time in aprill last of the
       Price of Six pounds of Lawfull mony of america as of his Proper horse and Being so thereof Possessed
       the said Horse Out of his hands and Possession Causually Lost which said horse afterwards
       at the Parish and County afd within the Jurisdiction afd on the first day of October in the year afd
       to the hands and Possession of the said Isaac by finding Came Nevertheless the said Isaac Knowing the
       horse afd to be the Proper horse of him the said Wescott and to him the said Wescott of right to belong
       and appertaine but Plotting and fraudulently Intending him the said Wescott of the horse afd
       Craftelly and subtilly to deceive and defraud the horse afd to him the said Wescott hath not delivered altho'
       the same to doe the said Isaac by the said Wescott on the fourth day of January in the year afd at
       the Place afd within the Jurisdiction afd he was requested but the horse afd afterwards to witt on
       the fifth day of January in the year afd at the Place afd within the Jurisdiction afd to his
       Own Proper use did Consent and dispose to the damage of the said Wescott of twelve pounds money
       afd and thereupon he Brings Suite &.c   Allen P Qrtre  Pledg deft  Jno Doe R: Roe
                                                                                                                                        (Att)


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Somerset County Judicial Records, 1723-1725
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